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He is spectacularly talented, just spectacularly talented. He was riveting tonight. I think he blew EVERYONE off the stage at the McCartney thing at the White House. I was just watching it with my mother and Jack White just blew me away.
Also, the drummer for the whole show was sublime. Sublime.
The rest... not so much.
I can't get over it. He grows on you. He goddam grows on you and he is SO talented. I didn't think he belonged in a documentary with The Edge and Jimmy Page, but, yes, yes, dammit, he damn well did. He was waaaay too good for Cinderella and Company. Next best was Emmylou, for sure, and Lang Lang was also very, very good, but... whoa... Jack White, baby, Jack White.
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I can't seem to find who that drummer was. Is. He did not, of course, play with Jack White, but he was back there for most of the songs performed and he was seeriously good. I should know who that is. I maybe even DO know who that is, but I can't SEE very well. So if you can help me with that, I will be grateful. The Grohl guy... Dave... ex of Nirvana... did a good job too... I think the drummer I'm talkin' about was backing him for his song. Stocky, bald, black guy. Did some very mellow and righteous work back there.
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Actually, you can see the drummer behind Grohl here and by the time most of you see this post you oughta be able to see the whole show on the PBS website. But Jack White nailed it. He brought the song back and he made you not miss the Beatles singing it. He was, hands down, the star of that show.
Jack White BELONGS in the White House... or... anyway... you know he'd be a better president than we've had in many a year... and if I were president, I'd have that drummer keeping my beat.
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Afterward was a documentary about how the Beatles brought down communism in the USSR. Mom thinks we need a new Beatles to fix what ails us now. We are in heavy agreement on at least this much.
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He's OK, I guess, but not my cuppa tea.
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ReplyDeleteOh, you old fuddy duddy Dave! You need to watch "It Might Get Loud" and then listen again.
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I watched parts of it might get loud and a couple other of his videos. Doesn't do it for me, but that's why there are so many records in the record store. I don't deny Meryl Streep is a great actress, but I don't like her much either. :)
ReplyDeleteI've been looking all over for him singing "Take a Load Off Annie" at the end of It Might Get Loud, but can't find it.
ReplyDeleteIn the movie, there is a thread going through his sections of it. He has this little boy Jack White with him a lot of the time. Same goofy hat. Same suit. Just a little kid. He packs him up in a trunk to go on the road. He's there when Jack's listening to an old black dude on an ancient recording just singing with only his toe tapping as accompaniment. Jack is listening for the essence of it. Is riveted by it. Getting the essence of music itself from it. And it shows mostly when he is performing alone... or, like in the movie, with people he's never been with before. I know he got what the old man had to teach because he did it at the White House. He found the essence of the song and did an as good and in some ways BETTER version of it than Paul did.
ReplyDeleteMuch as he likes to go all grunged-out and weird on stage with the Raconteurs, and those moments when he dips into this new excuse for phrasing and tone that the kids call "singing", he also can play transcendentally good guitar solos on guitars most mortals couldn't even make play a song.
Like I say, he takes some getting used to, and you have to forgive him a lot of very strangeness, but... damn... the kid listened for something no one ever hears, a crucial something, and he found it... and he now HAS it.
He really perked up Take a Load Off Annie while the credits rolled. He's a great singer, guitarist and drummer. Lort only knows what else he's good at.
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